A woman has quit her job at a haunted house in Columbia Station over registered sex offender co-workers.
COLUMBIA STATION, Ohio — A registered sex offender may have been scaring your children for fun at a Northeast Ohio haunted house. It’s a tip received by News 5 Investigators, and in less than 24 hours, we learned two felons were fired.
"I did not want to go back this year but I thought I'd try it. I want to go have some fun and make some money. I wish I would have just stayed away,” said Neubauer. News 5 checked with the Lorain Sheriff's Office, and Ohio law requires sex offenders to register and report where they live. There's nothing in the statute prohibiting working with children. However, there could be something in a judge's order in each individual case."There's no concern. We didn't know about this. As soon as we knew, we terminated them. They don't work for us," they said."Not very long, just a week. Two weekends. We got rid of the people.
Neubauer says it wasn’t until the end of last season that she found out the extent of one man’s conviction."I think that it's everybody's duty to protect kids and watch out for them, and if they are going to have a place where children are going to be in the dark around people who are in costume and makeup, they should do background checks,” said Neubauer.There is an effort in the statehouse right now to restrict where some sex offenders can work.
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